Percepción de la revictimización y la prevención de este fenómeno en familiares víctimas de casos de homicidio agravado “falsos positivos"

Abstract

The objective of this research paper was to identify the perception of victims of aggravated homicide "false positives", about their revictimization and the prevention of that phenomenon. The study is qualitative with systematic grounded theory design. The participants were four secondary victim women of aggravated homicide in Boyaca province, included in the databases of the National Center of Historical Memory, the Zoscua Corporation, and the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes MOVICE (by its initials in Spanish); they decided to participate voluntarily. Sampling was carried out using a sample of voluntary participants; the data collection instrument was based on an interview script validated in its content by expert judges with an Aiken index = 0.88. The analyses were carried out with Atlas Ti software version 7.0. The results determined that the secondary victims of aggravated homicide "false positives" perceived their revictimization by social entities as mass media and especially by judicial entities because the procedures completed by these entities were incomprehensible to the victims when they perceived the breach of established laws and the constitutional canon that protected them, showing that the treatment by public servants towards them was characterized by the ineffectiveness, uselessness and inadequate use of judicial procedures, which the victims perceived as a strategy for the expiration of terms. It was also found that from the perspective of the victims, the functionaries establish in a subjective way and ignoring the Colombian legislation prevention mechanisms based on arbitrary changes in the application of the regulations in criminal matters, by confusing the ordinary jurisdiction law with military criminal justice.